Putnam Avenue & Lewis Avenue

Putnam Avenue and Lewis Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. It is 940 feet to 462 Halsey Community Farm. The nearest bus stop, Lewis Av/Jefferson Av, is 130 feet away for the B15, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 19 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
2.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Lewis Av/Jefferson Av · B15
Within a walk
15 places
7 religious buildings, 2 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Putnam Avenue & Lewis Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lewis Av/Jefferson Av, 130 feet away, for the B15.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lewis Av/Jefferson Av B15
    130 feet
    B15

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lewis Ave & Madison St 23 docks in all
    250 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Borinquen Place, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 8 Malcolm X Boulevard Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 419 Stuyvesant Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2023
  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11221
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36
Police precinct
81
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
64 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1927.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2015 and August 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Lewis Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Lewis Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Putnam Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Putnam Avenue

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Eighteen buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1885 and 1886.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 garden
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Cornerstone Day Care Center Pre-K
    100 feet
  2. Ember Charter School for Mindful Education, Innovation and Transformation School
    1,160 feet
  3. P.S. 308 Clara Cardwell School
    1,160 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. 462 Halsey Community Farm Garden
    940 feet
  2. Raymond Bush Playground
    1,140 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Macon Library
    1,050 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Cornerstone Baptist Church Listed historic place
    220 feet
  2. St Mary Church of Christ House of worship
    800 feet
  3. Bridge Street AME Church House of worship
    1,160 feet
Show all 4
  1. Refuge Church of God House of worship
    1,230 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 562 Madison Street Older adult center
    280 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 214/Ladder 111 Fire station
    560 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and 12 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Lewis Avenue or Putnam Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.